No picture	Olga Vershinskaya: Professor, principal research scientist, Institute for Socio-Economic Studies of Population, Russian Academy of Sciences (ISESP RAS) January 2002 Languages: English-fluent, German-with a dictionary Educational background and academic degrees: Moscow State University, philological faculty, department of mathematical applied linguistics; PhD in economics (Management Information Systems); Berlin Technical University, Department of Sociology, training; Luxembourg Income Study Summer School; ISESP RAS, Professor, post-doctoral dissertation in economics (Socio–economic preconditions of the information society development in Russia)
Recent research Research and development in the sphere of Russia’s move to an information society. Scientific editing. Head and coordinator of national and international research projects: Strategy coordinator of the "Russia's readiness to an information society" World Bank project, 2001 Head of the "Preparedness of Russian population to life and work in an information society" project of the Russian Basic Research Foundation, 1999-2001 Assistant coordinator of the “Social Protection of Vulnerable Groups” TACIS project, NFCIS, contract no. T95–4118–R, 1996–1999. Scientific consultant in the “Development of the State Statistical System” World Bank joint project with the State Statistic Committee of the Russian Federation, 1998. 1988–October 1997: leading researcher in the ISESP RAS; 1997–2000: deputy director of ISESP RAS; 2000–present time: principal researcher in ISESP RAS; Since 1998: member of the Board of Directors of the Information Society Institute and of the Expert Council on Informatization of the Moscow State Duma.
Network & Affiliation
Recent Paper over 130 papers, 4 monographs. During the past decade presented reports at 14 International Conferences on the social impact of information and telecommunication technology.
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